Getting started with BMC AMI License Management System

BMC AMI License Management System (LMS) consists of several small components which allow you to establish, maintain, diagnose, and upgrade your access to the BMC AMI products licensed by your enterprise:

An ISPF License Administration Utility application
A runtime environment
A program interface to the runtime environment employed by BMC AMI products

LMS License Certificates are text files that are sent to you electronically. You will receive a License Certificate for each new product release under LMS. LMS now executes in the CMSC address space.

Structure

The following list briefly describes the contents of each section in this space:

The License Certificate provides an overview of the license certificate for the BMC AMI License Management System (LMS) and steps to follow when upgrading to LMS 4.0.
Centralized Licensing Facility Processing describes the LMS Centralized Licensing Facility implementation for Release 4.0.
Starting and stopping the server and client describes how to start the and stop the LMS server and client.
Server start-up parameters details the contents of the LMZINIT parameter file.
ISPF Interface describes the screens used in the ISPF interface on the LMS server.
BMC AMI Common Maintenance Utility is a program distributed with LMS, and executed through JCL that, by default, generates reports listing all PTFs currently applied to a particular system, for all specified BMC AMI mainframe products.

Conventions

In this space, the following conventions are used:

Client refers to the LMS client LPAR program.
Server refers to the LMS server program.
ISPF refers to the user interface.

Screen conventions

This section presents information that is common throughout the ISPF User Interface screens.

Product Title

The product title is displayed at the top center of each BMC AMI License Management System screen.

Short Message

The Short Message area is in the right corner of the first line.

COMMAND or OPTION Field

The COMMAND field (command line) is shown on all screens. On some screens, it is named the OPTION field. Use this field to enter primary commands or option selections on the LMS ISPF Interface screens. Primary commands are valid for all screens.

HELP	Provides tutorial information about the BMC AMI License Management System screens and options.
END	Takes you to the previous screen.
EXIT	Takes you to the previous screen.
UP	Scrolls the display up by the specified amount.
DOWN	Scrolls the display down by the specified amount.

SCROLL Field

The SCROLL field lets you set the scroll value for screens that permit scrolling. The positioning commands DOWN and UP are used with this field. The following values are valid for the SCROLL field:

CSR	Scrolls based on the cursor's location.
HALF	Scrolls the display a half screen.
MAX	Scrolls to the beginning or end of a data area.
PAGE	Scrolls the display a full screen.
nnnn	Scrolls nnnn lines. Valid entry is from 1 to 9999.

Screen Title

The screen title is usually displayed below the COMMAND or OPTION line. It consists of a short description of the screen's function.

Function Key Default Definitions

The default PF key settings are the following:

Key	Function	Description
PF1/PF13	HELP	Provides tutorial information about the BMC AMI License Management System screens and options.
PF2/PF14	SPLIT	Splits the screen in two. Use this key to run two sessions simultaneously.
PF3/PF15	END	Takes you to the previous screen.
PF7	SCROLL UP	Scrolls the display up.
PF8	SCROLL DOWN	Scrolls the display down.
PF9/PF21	SWAP	Switches back and forth between two screens when working in split screen mode.
PF12/PF24	CANCEL	Cancels the current transaction and returns to the previous screen.

You may reset the values assigned to the PF keys with the ISPF command KEYS. If your terminal has 24 PF keys, keys 13 through 24 are set to match the values assigned to 1
through 12. You can use the ISPF command PFSHOW TAILOR to change the display of valid PF key settings at the bottom of each screen.